Quotes About Emotion

Les plus brûlantes images sont froides au prix d'une sensation.

I have so much love in me that I would like to cry;

My eyes followed André. Maybe it is during those moments, as I watch him disappear, that he exists for me with the most overwhelming clarity: his tall shape grows smaller, each pace marking out the path of his return; it vanishes and the street seems to be empty; but in fact it is a field of energy that will lead him back to me as to his natural habitat: I find this certainty even more moving than his presence.

When she does not find love, she may find poetry.

I loved being loved: the bleakness of my future terrified me.

Es desde el corazón de mi vida, que yo deseo, prefiero, rechazo.

I weep, therefore I love

Through my suffering I only felt the presence of a love analogous to that which one reads in the smile of a beloved face.

But if the soul stops loving it falls, even in this life, into something which is almost equivalent to hell. — Simone Weil

We need to be cautious in using language in a pejorative way. Words ending in -ism and -ist seem to lend themselves to emotive rather than descriptive use.

The shame of emotion overpowered them; they cursed a little, to prove they were good rough fellows; and in a mellow silence, Babbitt whistling while Paul hummed, they paddled back to the hotel.

Why, she said, with a smile which snapped back after using as abruptly as a stretched rubber band, didn't he take a nice walk?

In some respects, writing was his only form of human interaction.

has it ever occurred to you that where there is no anger, there is also no love?

And drawers started opening in my brain, drawers I hadn't opened in years, and I was slamming them shut again but bits of memory kept coming, a voice here, a scream there.

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

It is not the cold which makes me shiver

Women have seldom have been an attraction to me, for my brain has always governed my heart.

Make the matter even more terrible than the truth

Iubeste cu adevarat cel ce tremura cand isi marturiseste dragostea.

A re you going to kiss me now or what?" I finally blurted out. "No," he said. "Then why is your face like two inches away from mine?" I asked. "I just like to look at you," he said seriously. "I want to look at you." His expression was almost pained.

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader, not the fact that it's raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.

You can never know enough about your characters.